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say it: shuhks
shucks is a noun meaning "something of little value". It is pronounced /ˈʃʌks/ — shuhks. It carries 2 recorded senses.
something of little value
“his promise is not worth a damn”
“not worth one red cent”
“not worth shucks”
an expression of disappointment or irritation
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shucks come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.